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Background information and historical notes about foxhunting as used in Georgette Heyer's novel The
Toll Gate, written in 1953 and set in 1817.
http://www.heyerlist.org/tollgate/foxhunting.html
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Fox-hunting on the Findon Downs
History and stories from 1675 to the present, with many photographs. Part of a site devoted to the
historical record of life in Findon, West Sussex, UK.
http://www.findonvillage.com/indfox.htm
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Sassoon, The Old Huntsman
Poem by Siegfried Sassoon from his book of poetry The Old Huntsman and Other Poems (1918).
http://www.bartleby.com/135/1.html
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Exmoor Oral History Archive: Tom Yandle (18 October 2001)
Summary of his oral history recordings about his life of hunting including his chairmanship of the
Devon and Somerset Staghounds and the Masters of Deer Hounds Association. He was also High Sheriff
of Somerset and on both the National Trust and National Park Committees.
http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/exmoor/yandle.htm
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Kipling, Fox-hunting: The Fox Meditates
Poem by Rudyard Kipling.
http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_foxhunting.htm
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Hughes, Branston`s Pickles - The Diary of an English Hunting Horse
Foxhunting stories (1995-present) from the point of view of the horse. Includes pictures of the
"author" and his friends, including Peter Hughes of Bath, Somerset.
http://www.horses.co.uk/branston/
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Baden-Powell, Lessons from the Varsity of Life
Comments on importance of fox-hunting.
http://www.pinetreeweb.com/bp-varsity3-2.htm
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Hunting Poetry
Selection of poems about the fox and foxhunting by WB Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Adam Lindsay Gordon,
Will H Ogilvie, Beatrice Holden, Phil Stevenson, Miss M. Wynter, D.W. Nash, Whyte-Melville and John
Masefield.
http://www.huntfacts.com/Poetry.htm
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Trollope, Hunting Sketches
The complete text (1865) of a series of essays on the topic of foxhunting.
http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/fox/trollope.html
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Surtees, Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour
The complete text (1852) of a novel revolving around foxhunting.
http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/Surtees/Sponge/index.html
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John Peel: The Man and the Song
A short history from Cumbria, UK.
http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/cumbria/john_peel_f.html
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D'ye ken John Peel?
Lyrics and history of this famous song and 'Horn of the Hunter'. Listen to the melody on Windows
Media Player.
http://home.mweb.co.za/sa/salbu/JohnPeel.html
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Did ye ken John Peel wid his cwote sae grey?
In the Cumbrian dialect, taken from original manuscript.
http://www.acronet.net/~robokopp/english/doyekenj.htm
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